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A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Written by Truong Nhu Tang, David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai
Narrated by Trieu Tran
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When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation"-and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives in exile in Paris, the highest level official to have defected from Vietnam to the West. This is his candid, revealing, and unforgettable autobiography.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5His mother was correct, he sowed to the wind and reaped the whirlwind. He wanted to oust the French, then fled back to them. Typical of some intellectuals, they are enamored with Marxism/socialism/communism until they have to live in it. He was full knowledge and secure in his intellectualism until payday came. He was full of knowledge, all false and deadly.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The translation or use of some words was wrong and sometimes comical in their use.This book is of a treacherous hypocrite who went with the communists then fled when he didn’t get the power and prestige he thought he deserved.To betray the free and democratic south vietnam and railing against the so called colonial and imperial powers he then proceeds to go love there.He is an utter weak disgrace of a man
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Eine aufschlussreiche und umfassende Biographie, für die es jedoch empfehlenswert ist, sich bezüglich des Vietnam Krieges schon etwas auszukennen.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An often unseen perspective of the Vietnam War. To little has been written from the Vietnamese point of view (at least in English) and this book fills a gap in the picture of the second Indochina war. The author was a non-communist member of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) and Justice Minister to the Provisional Revolutionary Government. The fact that there were non-communist members of the Viet Cong and its political wing may come as surprise to some American readers. This book provides fills in subtle details on the NLF movement that run contrary to the American notion of the Viet Cong as an entirely communist and Northern led force. This book may not be as exciting as a book written by an American grunt, because the struggle is political rather than military, but for those with more than a superficial interest in the war I would recommend it.